Human land use practices have degraded hundreds of thousands of miles
of water corridors in the U.S. Fortunately, there has been an increase in
effort to restore many of these aquatic habitats. Currently, the Deschutes ...

It is time to open up the dialogue about old age with a healthy and positive
outlook.
The current state of Oregon is faced with high elder suicide rates and
depression is common with elders.
I propose a complex inclu ...

Immigrants must cross two barriers when entering the United States, the physical border and a cultural border created by a set of exclusive cultural values and profits-before-people economic ethics. Immigrants, coerced b ...

The roles of today’s grandparents
have drastically changed from fifty
years ago. Grandparents are now
expected to give up their retirement
and that “grandparent relationship”
to fill in the position of “parent” when ...

This study compares arthropod
biodiversity in areas infested with invasive
cheatgrass Bromus tectorum with areas not
infested. The goal of this project was to
establish a baseline of the types of
arthropods found in ...

Self-regulated learners are students who take an
active role in their education and have the desire
to become more competent and more capable as
learners (Zimmerman, 1990).
Teaching student skills to be more self-reg ...

Restoration projects that involve revegetation efforts are often confronted with problems of
desiccation. Several studies have shown that mulching, or laying organic material over the surface
of the soil, can be very e ...

The sustainable landscape model we are creating is an attempt to visually make community members
aware of the water issue in our region. This xeric landscape will be aesthetically pleasing as well as
functional, to rep ...

The social impact of the Red Hat Society is twofold: first, the “disorganization”
is grounded solely in the belief that women over 50 have too long been ignored by society…hence the outrageous hats, boas
and colors tha ...

Road decommissioning will be a valuable
science in the future of ecological restoration
because of the excess number of roads in this
country. May things like habitat fragmentation,
erosion, spread of invasive specie ...

Small mammal populations are vital to the Metolius Forest Preserve. The forest
preserve is undergoing selective thinning, which may affect small mammal
populations in the forest. Our null hypothesis is that small mamma ...

The purpose of this study was to see if fifth grade
students agreed with the research that says that
children can easily and rapidly identify social
isolation within their peer groups (Dodge, Coie,
Pettit, Price, & J ...

Restoration ecology seeks to incorporate entire ecosystem functioning;
primarily attempting to repair what has been degraded or altered. In order to
reinstate ecological processes, biotic and abiotic components must be ...

There are two objectives of this experiment. The first is to test the effectiveness of various
soil treatments on cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) canopy cover. The second is to compare
the two treatment types side by side ...